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** The Official 8800GT 512/256mb Review/Overclocking Thread **

My clocks on my Sparkle 8800GT are:

725 Core (600 Stock)
1600 Shader (1500 Stock)
1000 Memory (900 Stock)

I've just been upping them throughout the day and running 3DMark runs back to back to test it. I'll do a big gaming sesh tonight to make sure of its stability but at the moment its rock solid.

Havent got a clue of its upper limits yet. How much further have people been getting their cores and shaders?
 
Sinny said:
thats my score, 12520.
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Just a thought - does 3DMark06 make full use of SLI when benchmarking?
With your Intel and single card, you're almost as high as my AMD SLI system. I've just got 13035 now I've moved back to XP, and I think I olny have about 800 points over a single card setup. And it seems the Intels perform a lot better in 3DMark06.
 
willhub said:
I'm keeping my GT at stock
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Again I think its worth running a new card for a while before overclocking, thats just my opinion but I'm surprised when I read that some people start overclocking their graphics cards as soon as they installed it?

I can't wait to tweak my card, score some higher benches etc but I like to take a *stock* card for a spin to get a feel for it, then when I overclock it I should actually notice the improvements without the need for any benches.

It doesn't help that I have never overclocked a modern nVidia GPU before! :o as I have been using ATI products for the last four years, but the process seems straight forward enough! :cool:
 
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not too shabby for all at stock. running 2gb of ram as well. thats on all settings available set to 'HIGH', including post processings, shadows, etc etc.

next ill do it with the settings set to 'VERY HIGH'. test done with no AA and at 1680x1050 res

edit: wow you really cant see that properly. ill crop whats needed
 
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well ive seen these at 15.5k in 3dmark06, single card?

is this correct?, i know its overclocked but i doubt many GTX get that score overclocked?
 
TiZoR said:
well ive seen these at 15.5k in 3dmark06, single card?

is this correct?, i know its overclocked but i doubt many GTX get that score overclocked?
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Aye but it doesn't really mean much as 3D Mark 06 only runs in 1280x1024 at default anyway, with no AA/AF or anything, so you're mostly CPU limited anyway in that particular app.

In games most benchmarks show the GT to be about 10fps behind the GTX when both are at stock and it seems to be about 5fps behind in the Crysis demo on all high from what I've seen of people benchmarking it on here.

Overclocked it's a monster. :D
 
anyone else got the Zotac 8800GT?

Currently at 720 / 950 / 1750 on mine and just wondered what others have been getting?
 
What temps are you folk getting? I used ntune monitor last night and it said my card was upto 81c under load... is that normal? or is there a more reliable program i can try? or is ntune perfectly fine?
 
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mattbill said:
What temps are you folk getting? I used ntune monitor last night and it said my card was upto 81c under load... is that normal? or is there a more reliable program i can try? or is ntune perfectly fine?
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i think I hit 84 last night whilst playing crysis - fan at 40%
 
I'm sat here idling at 53. Thats the cards, not me. :p
Load will add about 20 onto that so about 73ish.
The room my PC in isn't roasting hot mind and I have an 80MM fan dedicated to the cards to keep them cool.
 
hi overclocked my e6300 to 2.8 and purchased a 8800gt getting 11231 in mark 06 where do i find the shader adjustment point .can see the core and memory bus adjustment but no shader .Also my mark o6 is not default 1280 768 17 widescreen sammy see ::confused:
 
mattbill said:
Don't know if anyone will know, but would an EVGA superclocked BIOS (same spec as BFG OC2 BIOS) work on a BFG card?
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Yes it would mate, would require a FORCED flash as its a different manufacturer. Once flashed redo drivers in windows and test. Good luck
 
Gainward straight in @ 700/1000/1750

Idle temp of 50 odd. After a round of 3DM06 72, fan @ 50%

However @ stock speeds, 2 hours of Crysis spat an artifact at me, a quick alt+Tab explained that to me, 95oC!!! The fan didnt seem to romp itself up from stock (29%?) either.

I would be interested in what coolers people have?
 
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